Theoretically, the concept of improving production, the innovation process is considered as a sequence of stages:
1) initiation and implementation (R. Normann);
2) assessment, initiation, implementation, routinization (J. Heiji, M. Aiken);
3) understanding the problem, producing an idea, finding a solution to a problem, solving, implementing and using (A.S. Myers and D. Margis).
In the organizational context, the stages are:
1) conceptualization, making proposals, acceptance (approval) and implementation (J. Wilson);
2) the search for the “root” of the problem, the production of alternative proposals, the evaluation of alternative solutions, the selection and initiation of solutions, approval and routinization (L. Cummings and M. O'Connell). Improving the organization of production in the context of the innovative development of the enterprise, allows us to distinguish 3 stages:
1. Getting innovation is a conceptual and technical solution to the problem of creating innovation.
2. Distribution and organization of the development of innovations;
3. Use of innovation - assistance in the application, maintenance; disposal after use.
It should be noted that the specific content of the stages of the innovation process depends on the type of innovation and the nature of the promotion of innovation on the market.
Stages of the innovation life cycle include:
1. Research.
2. Origin - the concept of improving production always arises on the basis of a new idea.
3. Product development.
4. Mastering a new process.
5. Improving the organization of production at the enterprise - preparation of production, verification, the actual implementation of production.
6. Diffusion - the introduction of innovation at a specific facility.
7. Consumption - the use of innovation.
8. Routinization - the transformation of innovation into the everyday phenomenon of production activities.
The concept of improving production on the basis of the innovation process, suggests that it, as a set of subprocesses, covers:
1) the main innovation process and consumption of innovations (project development, investment process) ;
2) the service process (commercial, legal and organizational, information technology and educational, financial and logistical, consulting support, recruitment and training);
3) the regulatory process (state, industry, regional, municipal, corporate).
On the other hand, the innovation process itself, as a concept of improving production, noogenesis (creating new knowledge), is considered on the basis of ideas about creative human manifestations. Its "implantation" in a specific element of the external environment is facilitated, in turn, by the infrastructure of the external environment, potentially capable of implementing innovation.
The stages of the innovation process should be distinguished:
1) idea generation;
2) synthesis of ideas with experience;
3) a useful implementation is the creation of a prototype;
4) the use of innovation with its "degeneration";
5) the exploitation of innovation with the elimination of inferior experience that is not able to achieve the goal;
6) the vulgarization of innovation - the loss of a number of implied and declared properties, accompanying the capitalization of the experience gained with its help, the transition from the elite application of innovation to its widespread use.
The end result of the implementation and operation of innovation is also an increase in knowledge. At this stage, the concept of improving production takes shape in its completed form, and innovation turns into an ordinary work tool.
Thus, the innovation process, even at the theoretical level of consideration, is a complex multidimensional phenomenon, and therefore in the scientific literature this term has many interpretations.